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Can Cuil give Google a run for their money?

budque — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:59:18 -0600

Cuil: The Latest, Baddest AntiGoogle Looks Like A Magazine

SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable _ only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers _ Russell Power and Louis Monier _ searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

Good-bye, Google Bomb

budque — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:02:15 -0600

Washington Post, July 23, 2008

Bloggers, take note: the old-school Google bomb is no more.

That's right, the online behemoth best known for its search engine says that it has rejiggered its legendary and proprietary technology so that online efforts by bloggers to manipulate its top-secret search algorithm to create cheeky, offensive and decidedly off-message answers to searches will no longer work.

"It was fun" while it lasted, said Rick Klau, a member of the Google strategic partner development content acquisition team, at a search engine optimization training session for political bloggers in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. But, he said, "Google bombs don't work anymore."

Flash get Searchable

ryan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:59:28 -0600

It seems like forever my chief complaint against Flash (aside from when it's used in an all-fashion no-function way) has been that it's invisible to search engines. But now, apparently, Adobe is giving Google and Yahoo the keys to indexing SWF files. Why they're not opening it up so any search engine can do it I'm not sure: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/01/1220232&from=rss.

Open Source Search

ryan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:29:46 -0600

The founder of Wikipedia wants to throw his weight behind open source search tools. "His bet: like Linux became a migraine for the monopolist of the last generation, open source search tools will keep companies like Google
honest." - Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search.